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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Adelaide
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For those that are over 30 years old, well before XBox, PS2, WII..etc, the main form of indoor entertainment for me and most of my friends back then was a slot car set. if you were not so rich, you had a 'no name' brand that you could get from most Toy stores etc, and took 4 D cell batteries. If your parents had a bit more cash, you got AFX or scalextric with a transformer (never ending power!). i only gave mine away a few years ago to a neighbor, and i bitterly regret that now. i may ask for it back...
Own up all you X generationers...
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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scalextric here. Still have it around my old mans place. He will not let it out of the house.
He picked up from the dump a few years back the whole track from a old shop that closed down. Still reconds he's going to get it going in the shed one day but I don't know where he's going to find the room. Theres about 10 cars in there. |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Brisbane, QLD
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I had one of the no name sets, gave me hours of entertainment tho & made me popular with mates too. Wish I had the room for a half decent set now. They are still really popular if you ever see one of the 8 track ones at a car show.
ahh those were the days, when you had to actually go and play cricket in the street or kick a footy down the oval instead of plugging a game into a game consul
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2008
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Scalextric rock. I loved these as a kid.... as an adult.... hey who am
I kidding I still do. ![]() nitro rc cars instead but no doubt I will end up with one again in the future. |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Berwick, VIC
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My father (~50 years old, living in US) just got two tracks
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: On the Dark Side of The Moon
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Nah - That stuff is too small...... we've got a track like this in WA.
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You wanna do what??
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kallangur, Qld
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Love them.
Still "help" the kids with theirs ![]() Cheers Mick
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Adelaide
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you have just hit the holy grail of the slot car world....the mighty internationally acclaimed BLUE KING.
i raced at the REDLINE raceway in Adelaide's Blue King from 1990 to about 1999. 2 Australain Championships in Flexi cars and group 12. I also raced at Penrith (NSW), Tullermarine (Vic) & Sale (Vic) do those classes still exist? do you race Wing cars or sedans?
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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The body types change all the time... Standards Supers Box motors Group 12/15 Vintage stuff too. State champ for Super and Open Supers for a couple of years. Only one place left in WA, in a suburb called Maddington. For those that have not seen these things go..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphO7WeYhIU
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cattai, Sydney
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never had anything big. Just AFX - i had mounds of fun - spraying the straight with deoderant or some sort of lubricant and watching the cars burnout and then fly off into the wall 10ft away hehehe
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same in adelaide, a few 'underground wooden' tracks left, and a few 'shopfront' scalextrix tracks on other side of town to me which are too far for me. i miss my scalextric track which i gave away....
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Clutch Cable Killer
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Bald Hills, North Brisbane
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I got 2 AFX tracks that have ended up in the same box (bathurst and some loop thing) occasionally it will be set up but I haven't used it in a few years.
I am going to set up Bathurst one of these days but normally its just some thing with heaps of turns and a massive straight hehe.
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Location: Mid North Coast
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AFX Thunderloop Thriller here.....looking at it as I type this,although its not mine so to speak it was our daughters set,but will now be passed onto the grandson....lol
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney
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Yeah I had the plug in one that had 2 loops.
Loved fooling round with them, but setting them up on think pile carpet was always causing issues if I remember correctly haaa. |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Ipswich QLD
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Im not Gen X, Im actualy Gen Y and I have 12m of AFX. Still have it, used to spend countless hours buying new shells and sanding them into a shape of a modern car (AFX were so bad at releasing up to date cars), and painting them. I got pretty good at it too. Then we used to go to the local AFX club and race on 8 lanes of tack approx 20-25m long. All made out of the basic two lane track pieces. Makes that tiny track called blue king look more like a blue speck! Was great fun!
I actually pulled it out a few days ago. Its seen better days!!
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: In the back with Miss Alba
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I got an old bathurst scalextric (2 mondeos painted in johnson and phil ward colours) and a newer scalextrix 4x4 wrc kit including a focus and wrx. here are some pics
http://members.westnet.com.au/veloci...?photocatid=24
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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I have 2 AFX bathurst sets, my old man has a great old set that I have too, and some spare track from some friends. All up must be 15 metres at least. Good fun, its a bit of up keep to keep all the electrics shiny though! And yeah, I like putting old 60s70s age tyres on the newer cars, sideways all the way!!
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I used to spend hours making new track designs and whatnot. We used to have fun taking the shells off the AFX cars and just racing as the bare chassis too.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SE Vic
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I had AFX because we couldn't afford Scaletrix.
Had the thunderloop thriller track. I remember many hours of pulling apart matchbox cars so that we could put the body shell on the AFX cars. Long gone now.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perth WA
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Yeah, got the Bathurst Thunder set with Betta Electrical Falc and Spud's Commodore.
A few of my family have previously got together with tracks and raced a few cars, couple of Slot.IT cars, Jaguar, Porsche, McLaren and i've got an NSR Mosler in gulf colours. All variously modded. Also the usual Scalextrics Minis, a modded Betta Electrical Falc, Moff's Coke Mustang. |
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: launceston tasmania aus.
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Ive Still Got All My Cars.use To Build My Own Flexy Wing Cars And Came 4th In The Tassie Northern Totals.i Build Them And My Dad Crashed Then But Me And My Dad Had Some Of Our Greatest Times Together,so I Will Admitt Tat I Loved Them......mick
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: WA
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Afx here, wanna scalectrix one though... my ol man had one think he got rid of it.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Sadelaide
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They were the days. When we were little my brother and I used to get all the straight pieces and drag race them down the hall way.
My fav car from then was a Willy's Hot Rod it was black with flames. No idea where they are now.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2009
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haha slot cars, i raced 1/24 scale cars up until a year ago, i think ive finally grown up. The cars i was racing weighed 45g and had 1.5hp and had carbon fiber chassis. After 10 years of racing i won 3 national titles.
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Newcastle
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we had dad's old scalextric set, and an afx plus we used to go to the local model shop
(newcastle model autosport) and use their big track with 'flexi' cars.. now i have a 1/8 scale nitro rc truggy.. but maybe my 8 month old son will give me an excuse to get some more slot cars ![]() |
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Motor 1.5hp
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Gawler area SA
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Had a Scalextric 'Rally Cross' as a kid during the mid 70's. My Brother and I spent hours on end racing each other.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Derbyshire/Shropshire, UK
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When I was a kid I had the matchbox track with the capasitors (spelling) yellow flexible track.
My dad gave it away a few years ago ![]() I also used to have the smash up derby cars I thisnk one was an XY Falcon Wagon and the other an EH Holden Sedan can't remember exactly but I have been trying to find one for ages now. Nostalga. Wayne |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth
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Life begins at 40
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I bought it about 15 years ago so my nephews would have something to play with when they came over. I ended up spending more time on it than they did. :hihi: I also bought a few banked curves and extra straight pieces. I still have it although, it’s packed away at the outlaw’s place. My son is nearly at the age where he’ll be able to play with it, although, it’s more a matter if finding somewhere to put it.
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